Andrew Barnas

Team %>% I'll die on this hill

We're so back

Glad others are in the same head space 😂

Structural Equation Modeling [2026, colourized]
#rstats

Seismic line disturbances affect spatial and temporal patterns of snow accumulation in boreal forests Geologic exploration for petroleum resources has created a network of linear clearings known as seismic lines in the boreal forest. These anthropogeni…

Really great work here showing snow accumulation on "seismic lines" in Canadas Oil Sands. Remove the tree canopy, snow accumulates. Implications for wildlife use!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Has to be the first one, anything else is unacceptable

Pensoft launches new journal: Individual-based Ecology | Blog IBE joins a number of open-access ecology journals published by Pensoft

We're a brand-new academic journal aimed at promoting an individual-based perspective in ecology.

We publish under a diamond open-access model with @pensoft.bsky.social - if you-re studying individual-based ecology feel free to get in touch!

blog.pensoft.net/2024/09/12/p...

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Birds in cities dealing with light pollution

I need to write.
I also need to watch Olympic hockey.

Fortunately I am a master of work life balance:

Born to code, forced to email

Depending on the language, you can assign it to any term you want

var <- "funny bone"

1. Write to-do list

Energy Infrastructure Clears the Way for Coyotes in Alberta's Oil Sands Energy development has fundamentally reshaped the boreal forest of Canada's oil sands region. Dense networks of linear features, including roads and seismic lines, have created new landscapes that su...

Want more Bad Bunny? Check out our lab's research on how snowshoe hares help drive coyote populations in Alberta's Oil Sands region.

Energy Infrastructure Clears the Way for Coyotes in Alberta's Oil Sands - Clarke - 2025 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Revisiting the debate: documenting biodiversity in the age of digital and artificially generated images Abstract. This study examines the risks associated with relying solely on images for documenting new species records, rediscoveries, taxonomic descriptions, and distribution expansions. We highlight c...

Theres a really interesting idea in this article (we.copernicus.org/articles/23/...) that as we shift more to AI and easily fabricated imagery, there will be a renewed emphasis on specimen collection.

Celebrating #WorldWetlandsDay 2026 with a quick look at the Hudson Bay Lowlands, the largest wetland in North America. Home to many Indigenous people, a massive storehouse of peat, and is habitat for wildlife.

I teach a 15 day field school entirely in the Hudson Bay Lowlands each year in August.

Latest paper from our Hudson Bay polar bear research. It's hard won data & explores a topic we know little about: predator / prey relationships. Lead author supported by @PolarBears post-doc.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... [open access]

First time I've ever come across a dragon in a wildlife paper! Figure caption, "...upper panel with dragon icon symbolising all tetrapods)". Paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Took me way too long to realize that its super easy to just merge pdfs in R rather than fussing with Adobe #rstats

library(pdftools)
pdf_combine(
input = c("file1.pdf", "file2.pdf"),
output = "merged.pdf"
)

Sport mode is out. Science mode is in.

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Seeing screenshots of niche bird and ggplot memes from my old twitter account

Jamie's paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

TWS highlight on research coming out of our lab! Great work by Jamie Clarke!

I really like how it doesn't remember people who I email every day.

(we're back baby)

oooooooooo spicy takes by Gavin this morning (I'm here for it)

well now what do I do

📷🦌Cover article! Congrats to @wildco.bsky.social PhD candidate Taz for leading this nuanced paper showing that the effects of wolf reduction on caribou calf survival depend on landscape context. Compensation by other predators may limit benefits for caribou. #openaccess doi.org/10.1002/jwmg....